Family Matters Quotes

“Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different. ”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“If you ignore little things, they become big problems.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion from you, every possible reaction, envy, admiration, pity, irritation, fury, fondness, jealousy, love, disgust. But in the end all human beings became candidates for compassion, all of us, without exception...and if we could recognize this from the beginning, what a saving in pain and grief and misery.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“There's only one way to defeat the sorrow and sadness of life - with laughter and rejoicing. Bring out the good dishes, put on your good clothes, no sense hoarding them.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“The photographs had made him aware how much the street and the buildings meant to him. Like an extended family that he’d taken for granted and ignored, assuming it would always be there. But buildings and roads and spaces were as fragile as human beings, you had to cherish them while you had them.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“this was an outstanding family subject in our real life.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“ Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories - your life, my life, old Husain's life, they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Hell has ways of permeating heaven's membrane.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Hell has ways of permeating heaven’s membrane.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories – your life, my life, old Husain’s life, they’re the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“The bhel-puri stall was a sculptured landscape with its golden pyramid of sev, the little snow mountains of mumra, hillocks of puris, and, in among their valleys, in aluminium containers, pools of green and brown and red chutneys.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“When a culture vansihes, humanity is the loser.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.’” “That’s lovely,” said Roxana. “Shakespeare?” “Pascal.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“When a culture vanishes, humanity is the loser.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“for things like migraine, high or low blood pressure, stomach cramps. I don’t remember exactly, but Bach was the one prescribed most often, especially certain fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier. Wait, I’ll be back in a minute.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, the hours when he felt the very walls and ceilings were encrusted with the distress of of unhappy decades”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Rangarajan, your other patients are waiting. Thank you very much for your help.” “But it is no trouble—” “Thank you, bye-bye,” said Coomy. For a moment, Mr. Rangarajan looked offended. But he recovered his poise, wished the professor a speedy recovery, and left. They pushed Nariman’s”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Klausykis senų žmonių patarimų. Kai užaugame, mums atrodo, kad žinome viską. Manome, kad seniai kuoktelėję, Metams bėgant, sukaupiame per daug išdidumo. Jis mus ir pražudo.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Murad muttered that everything had to wait till he was older, and at this rate there would be so much piled up for him to do, there would be no time for it all.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters